The largest bank to fall into a loss-share agreement with the FDIC is the Valdosta-based Park Avenue Bank whose assets of $953.3 million are now in major trouble as almost a quarter of its real estate loans are now basically useless paper.

And Park Avenue is, frighteningly enough, just a symbol of what has occurred in the region at large with Georgia, Florida and South Carolina accounting for an incongruously large share of the total bank defaults nationally since 2008.

A map provided by SNL (and displayed above), demonstrates the sheer totality of the Southeast's dominance in bank failures over the past three-plus years. So, if you've got money in a bank anywhere in America's Southeast, you might want to check in on your accounts.